For this year’s Christmas season, the Riverwest Artists Association has sponsored a series of window installations on Center Street. These diverse and quirky windows span the length of the street from Holton to Humboldt….
January 2003
Posted inNeighborhood News
Pueblo Foods Fights Disqualification from Food Stamp Program
“I fell back in my chair and I just about died.”
Liduina “Nina” Estremera shook her head when she described her reaction to opening a letter in early October from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) ordering her to stop accepting food stamps from customers at her store, Pueblo Foods, 2029 N. Holton St.
Since the USDA handed down the order in October, Pueblo Foods and its owner have struggled to make ends meet. Estremera said she has lost $75,000 in sales since October and has had to lay off six employees.
Posted inColumns
Living a Life Mosaic: Diversity in Riverwest
“Riverwest is diverse.” We hear it and say it all the time, but what does it mean? People! In real life, what does it mean? ….
Posted inFurther Down Stream
January 2003
RIVERWURST COMICS !! – News from the 2900 N. Booth Block Club – Milwaukee Urban Gardens and Garden Park – Patchwork Quilts – VA troubles – Gordon Park ranked #6 out of 52 county parks – Micky Shanahan dies
Posted inEditorials
This is the Place
A new year is a good time to take stock of what’s good and what’s bad in your life. For many people, one thing that’s good is this place we’re all in together. It’s where we live. It’s our neighborhood. So we’re devoting some space this issue to reflecting on the past year — in photos and writings — and on this place we live in together. Just what is it that makes a place a neighborhood? You may think it’s something as simple as location and boundaries, but even that can be complicated, as Dan asks in “Where is Riverwest?” Boundaries are fluid and changing; we decide what they are. You may think it’s the people that make a neighborhood, and that is mostly right. People have everything to do with a neighborhood’s character, which is why Riverwest has so much character. We live in one of the few diverse neighborhoods in one of the most segregated cities in the nation. But we still have a ways to go, as Tanya talks about in this month’s View from Here.
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